---

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the total amount of poultry (a) produced and (b) sampled for (i) nicarbazin, (ii) lasaloci, (iii) dimetridazole and (iv) other residues in the last month of (A) 1998, (B) 1999, (C) 2000 and (D) 2001. [23594] Mr. Morley: [holding answer 18 December 2001]: The total amounts of poultry produced in the last month of 1998, 1999 and 2000 are set out in table 1. The figures for 2001 are not yet known. The numbers of samples taken from poultry throughout the United Kingdom for testing for the substances listed for the same months are set out in table 2. The figures for the last month of 2001 are the numbers of samples requested by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate. Table 1: UK poultry slaughterings Million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. December 1998 December 1999 December 2000 Broiler birds 50.63 50.21 51.99 Boiling fowls 2.90 2.89 2.76 Turkeys 3.65 3.05 3.29 Ducks{1} 1.42 1.50 1.50 Geese{1} 0.083 0.083 0.083 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Figures only available for annual production. Figures shown are based on one twelfth of annual production. Source: UK livestock surveys Table 2: Number of UK poultry samples taken for analysis for veterinary residues in December _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1998 1999 2000 2001{ 1} Nicarbazin n/a 26 14 26 Lasalocid n/a 30 23 26 Dimetridazole n/a 164 18 177 Other n/a 533 291 709 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Figures for December 2001 relate to the number of samples requested.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

377 c762-3W;377 c766W; 23594

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Animal feed Drugs Food Poultry Testing Veterinary medicine Residues

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk